My history : a memoir of growing up
Fraser, Antonia, 1932-2015
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Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double purpose. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s - her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life.
Main title:
My history : a memoir of growing up / Antonia Fraser.
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Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.
Collation:
304 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781780227948 (pbk)1780227949 (pbk)
Dewey class:
B FRA
LC class:
PR6056.R2863
Language:
English
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BRN:
281297